failed transaction in method with REQUIRES_NEW causes failing the transaction in the calling method. WHY?

[dimitarn]

Hi

I have jboss 5.1 ejb3

I have a simple method

@TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRED)
    public void onMessage(final Message message) {
     //extract message body
     //persist message body
...................
     try {
            replicatonQueueSender.send(item);
        } catch (Exception e) {
            log.error("item not replicated ", e);
        }
}


@TransactionAttribute(TransactionAttributeType.REQUIRES_NEW)
    public void send(Serializable obj) {
     try {
     sender.send(createMessage(obj));
     } catch(Exception e) {
     }
}

All i want to know why does the transaction in onMessage fails(i.e. the persist message body fails) if there is exception in

replicatonQueueSender.send method which is catched there. If the new transaction in send fails, why does the 
onMessage transaction fails too. This is not per the ejb3 spec i think?

[marklittle]

You might want to try posting this in the EJB forum and also giving more details about the failure, e.g., what you are seeing, stack trace etc.

[dimitarn]

I don't think this is for ejb forum.

I founded, but i don't know how to solve it.

The sender.send throws MessagingNetworkFailureException cause by java.io.EOFException: end of file object not sent and this is ok. It trys to connect but the other client is dead so after 5 minutes trying (the default timeout for transaction) it causes the inner and the outer transaction to cancel.

22:08:05,428 WARN  [arjLoggerI18N]
 [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna. 

coordinator.TransactionReaper_18] -
 TransactionReaper::check timeout for TX 7f000001:8ccb:4beb2459:154 in
 state  RUN
 22:08:05,430 WARN  [arjLoggerI18N]
 [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.BasicAction_58] - Abort of action
 id 7f000001:8ccb:4beb2459:154 invoked while multiple threads active
 within it.
 22:08:05,432 WARN  [arjLoggerI18N]
 [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.CheckedAction_2] -
 CheckedAction::check - atomic action 7f000001:8ccb:4beb2459:154
 aborting with 1 threads active!
 22:08:05,432 WARN  [arjLoggerI18N]
 [com.arjuna.ats.arjuna.coordinator.TransactionReaper_7] -
 TransactionReaper::doCancellations worker Thread[Thread-17,5,jboss]
 successfully canceled TX 7f000001:8ccb:4beb2459:154

[marklittle]

Ah now hopefully you see the benefit of including a stack trace or a snippet of the error messages you are seeing!

I suggest you check out the JBossTS wiki as that will explain the message you are seeing.

[marklittle]

Should have said that the only thing in your recent posting that is relevant to transactions is the timeout. Like I said earlier, I think you should try in the EJB forum too.